Five years after her son finished cancer treatment, Rosie Smith is hoping to serve up an ace for the charity that helped her family. The professional tennis coach is teaming up with Cambridge Racquets Club…
Five years after her son finished cancer treatment, Rosie Smith is hoping to serve up an ace for the charity that helped her family. The professional tennis coach is teaming up with Cambridge Racquets Club…
Waipā District Council has joined a nation-wide library movement and is proposing to remove library fines. The proposal is outlined in a revised schedule of council’s fees and charges for 2023/24, to go out for…
Cambridge High School families have dug deep to support students of Wairoa College in Hawke’s Bay affected by Cyclone Gabrielle and raised more than $3000 from a mufti day. “Everyone’s really wanting to get behind…
On 19 February 1975 Ngāuruhoe, our most active volcano at the time, produced one of the more violent recent eruptions in Aotearoa. The seven-hour event launched an ash plume of pulverized rock and hot gases…
A basic longing all human beings have is to feel ‘connected’. In Tom Hanks’ movie, Cast Away he plays a Fed-Ex executive who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone, marooned on an island…
Waipā has been allocated an extra $10,000 to invest in projects and ideas that rethink, reduce and reuse waste across the district. The money comes from the Ministry for the Environment but is administered by…
A former Waipā based photographer based in Germany is helping raise awareness of mental health service in New Zealand. Conceptual fine art photographer Leigh Schneider’s solo exhibition Beyond the Shadows shows her work on topics…
Anyone who has watched television programmes where people retrace their family history will know it can be a fraught experience. Tragic stories of babies born out of wedlock, lives lost far too young, injustices and…
When Janine Krippner saw the stone axe sitting on her parents’ bookshelf alongside some family photos at their Paterangi farm next to Lake Mangakaware, she immediately knew it didn’t belong there. Eight years in the…
Cambridge High School will throw a party to commemorate 50 years since its library opened – and the launch of its new archive room. Library manager Glenys Bichan said the March 23 celebration would be…
